Burrows combs his neighborhood in the Los Angeles-area, looking for flowers and then puts them in a room that is as dark as he can possibly get. When he shines an ultraviolet light on the petals, these flowers will come to life.

Burrows said things like dust can have a major impedance on his photos, so he started growing his own. "I have concerns that bought flowers would be more problematically covered in man-made glowing dust particles,” he said.

“I recently photographed some bottlebrush, which I expected to be quite spectacular,” Burrows said. “Instead, the leaves glowed brightly and the flower part lacked brightness but had some very interesting color differentiation based on the anatomy.”